Now it's time to join us again and round out the summer with the No Impact Week carbon cleanse, September 18-25. YES!, the No Impact Project, and you will join forces with Bill McKibben and 350.org for Moving Planet Day on September 24—a massive global volunteer day.

During No Impact Week, you'll have the chance to participate on your own or as a team, taking on challenges and competitions like eating locally, lowering your energy use, and meeting your neighbors. If you don't want to go it alone, you can even sign up with an already existing group.

The No Impact Project was conceived by Colin Beavan, following the success of his blog, book, and film, No Impact Man.
He chronicled his family’s year-long experiment in zero-waste living in
New York City, and created a weeklong experiment based on his experiences.

How It Works

You try the experiment, see if it changes your life, tell your friends to try it, see if it changes theirs...

No Impact Week in PhotosFood, energy, giving back, and more: The winning entries from January's No Impact Week participants.

Prepare

1) Register to receive the how-to manual. Read through it (but don’t print it out!) and begin to prepare.

2) Register as a group: Invite your friends, family, church, or community to join you! Choose a group name and receive special group materials for discussion, as well as extra opportunities for sharing and prizes.

3) Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
to receive support messages, ideas and resources throughout the week.

The Week Begins

1) Read through each day’s challenge the day before (i.e. on Sunday
read Monday’s section). The how-to manual includes daily instructions: daily steps and a page of ideas and resources to help you with that
day’s challenge.

2) At the end of the day send us a blog or vlog entry, share
photographs, and talk to other participants about your experiences;
read about other participants’ challenges and discoveries, and provide
support and ideas. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for submission instructions.

Post-Experiment Week

1) Take a brief post-experiment eco-lifestyle survey (we will send this to you).

2) Sign up to become a No Impact Ambassador in your community.

3) Six-months later the No Impact Project will follow up with you to gauge the long-term impact of the Experiment.

Please note that we do not want you to feel limited or overwhelmed
by the ideas promoted by the No Impact Experiment. Define your experience. Do as much as you can and adapt it
to your life. Like most challenges, the more you put into this, the
more you’ll get out of it.

Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter and visit our website
for more information in the lead-up to September 18, as well as original
YES! content on low-impact living. We hope to see you there!

"No Impact Man" on what thousands have learned about happiness,
community, and low-impact living through No Impact Week.

:"No Impact Man's" picks for getting started on a climate-friendly life.

A No Impact Week veteran reflects on how the one-week carbon cleanse taught him to be happier—and how it could teach you, too.